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Baoshan Xing, professor of environmental and soil chemistry in the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, is one of the editors of “Engineered Nanoparticles and the Environment: Biophysicochemical Processes and Toxicity,” which is being released this month by John Wiley & Sons, Inc....

Three faculty members from the College of Natural Sciences and another from the College of Humanities and Fine Arts have been appointed to named professorships in recognition of their scholarly and professional achievements.
Wesley Autio, director of the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, was...

Emery Berger, computer science, will give an invited talk Friday, Oct. 7 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Workshop on Software Correctness and Reliability.
His talk will be “On the Correctness of Spreadsheets,” describing his work on automatically finding errors in...

A new study released by a team of economists including Arindrajit Dube, associate professor of economics at UMass Amherst, reveals that the large extension of unemployment insurance benefits during the Great Recession had neither statistically significant nor economically meaningful effect on employment, positive or negative.

UMass Amherst has officially kicked off the 2016-17 Faculty and Staff Campaign, which will run through June 30, 2017.
Last year, 1,685 staff and faculty members made gifts in support of the university totaling close to $1.1 million. In that 2015-16 campaign, faculty and staff supported more than...

Gina M. Chaput, a Ph.D. candidate in microbiology, was recently awarded the 2016 Environmental Protection Agency’s Science to Achieve Results Fellowship for her dissertation research to discover mechanisms of anaerobic bacterial lignin degradation that can be used to improve paper pulping...

James Heintz, Andrew Glyn Professor of Economics, will speak as a member of a panel called “Making Macroeconomics Work for Women” at the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 5.
The event will be webcast at http://www.imf.org/external/...

Find out how changing your sleep can change your life at two events on campus Wednesday, Oct. 5. Stop by the Sleep Fair from 1-3 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom for activities, vendors and freebies, including sleep trackers. Then, come to “Sleepless @ UMass” from 5-7 p.m. in 804-5 Campus Center. Rebecca Spencer, associate professor, psychological and brain sciences, and director of the graduate program in neuroscience will explain what sleep does for you, what happens when you don’t get enough, and how to overcome sleep challenges.